that Relations between Chávez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro portrayed as a ödesgemenskap between the two broderfolk, was according to critics a one-way channel for oil and the dollar from the wealth of Venezuela to the chronic kassabristens Cuba.
the Symbiosis between the two socialistregimerna sprouted out of the deep reverence Chávez showed Fidel Castro. Fidel, declared Chávez, ”belongs not only Cuba but the whole world … he is, for me, a father, a companion, my perfect teacher in political strategy … a giant … a socialism of Julius Caesar.”
A poster of Cuba’s former leader Fidel Castro and Venezuela’s ditto Hugo Chávez. Photo: Franklin Reyes/AP
unconditional that he happily copied the cuban policy also where this brought Cuba to the bankruttens stripe. The most blatant example, whose suites are venezuelans aware of the daily, is the collectivization of agriculture, carried out by cuban experts. After this heavy-handed structural change produced in Venezuela, less than a third of its food requirements.
Of the many young cubans who dream to leave the country, doctors are especially eager. The view that tvångskommenderas to a backwater in Venezuela has been a big cloud in their sky since the leaders did up to the set-off of oil supplies to cuban experts.
They sent paid by Venezuela, but the money goes directly to the cuban state. It is not unusual that the cuban doctors spent ten years against their will in Venezuela.
both the doctor and the schoolteacher cuban; cuban intelligence agents know more about what is happening in the country than president Maduro ministers, and many of the regime’s nouveau riche have made their fortunes in the intricacies of the business through Cuba.
the Parties of the so-called MUD-the front, the regime’s rivals in the day, first of all want to say up all the open and secret agreements between countries: Stop Venezuelan oil supplies to Cuba, to send home the tens of thousands of cubans in Venezuela’s school and public health, demand refunds on all beneficial loans Cuba scored, and – above all – decontaminate away cuban influence in the defence and security services.
After the failed military coup against Chávez in 2002, it grew cuban influence over both him and the security services. The dreaded cuban secret service G2 helped Chávez to reorganize the armed forces.
and mutiny wherever he turned, felt safer when he surrendered his security in the cuban hands. Before the Venezuelan economic collapse, there were close to fifty thousand cuban employees in the Venezuelan public sector, among them a couple of thousand G2-agents.
Very little is known about these things, but critics of the regime in Venezuela, claims that Fidel Castro used his influence and his security services to manipulate the Chávez and scare him up with rumors of plots, in order to inculcate in him the only thing he could rely on was the cubans.
In his long illness, from may 2011 until his death in march 2013, were submitted to he mainly in Havana. Not that there was a lack of expertise in Carácas, without, therefore, that only in Cuba, could the regime guarantee that nothing about the disease leaked out.
Venezuela close to a hundred thousand barrels of oil a day to Cuba, which sold the most on. In recent years has this contribution had been red, to a third, and 2017 snatched from Russia in after a plea from the cubans. Moscow does not remove the raw materials for free, and it has been speculated over what the cubans are offering in return.
